Hi all,
I have to move my current redhat 6.6 enterprise PHYSICAL installation to a Hyper-v VM on Windows server 2012.

I thought this would be easy, so simply used clonezilla to make a copy, then created a blank VM on Windows, loaded up clonezilla, restored the file - but it failed.

It gets to "enabling /etc/fstab swaps:

and then just hangs. Eventually giving "task swapon:1044 blocked. not tainted 2.6.32-504.3.3el6.x86_64

and then repeats.

I have tried the whole process three times and it stalls each time at the same point. The clonezilla forum can't help me, they are out of ideas.

So, would anyone here please be able to shed some light on this, OR... perhaps give me a better method to move the installation across please?

You have to use physical to virtual machine converter (P2V)

would you recommend one? I downloaded platespin (or some name like that) but it doesn't run on win2012

anyone?

I don't have any experience here, but I like the KISS approach.
Disable swap on the physical system, comment out the entry in fstab, image it again, and see what happens. You can always add swap later.

Doesn't Microsoft have a p2v app?

wouldn't it make more sense to move the Windows machine into a VM running on Linux?
(I know, boss, managers, other people without a clue in the job.. , but I could not restist to ask)

A P2V tool to move Linux onto Hyper-V? I would like to see that.

But I would find another way. There are many HOW-TO documents out there, some of them must work.

My first take would be to make sure the physical identifies mounts (and swap) partitions by LABEL, then replicate the mounts AND SWAP partitions using the LABELS, and clone the contents of the mounts into the new home. Then load up a live CD, chroot into the new root, and run the grub commands to install the boot image properly.

Well, Hyper-V is the poorest choice for virtualization out there, so I guess if you're going to use it and they don't provide a P2V app, then find another way.

Even Virtualbox provides a P2V...